A top Justice Department official directed U.S. attorneys to investigate state and local jurisdictions that fail to enforce immigration laws, a move that came as part of the department’s broader effort to carry out President Donald Trump‘s border plans.
Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove issued the directive Tuesday night in a department-wide memo, obtained by the Washington Examiner, and outlined other immediate policy changes designed to crack down on illegal immigration.
“These interim changes are necessary as an initial response to Executive Orders that President Trump issued yesterday, critical to the Justice Department’s mission, and part of the response to three of the most serious threats facing the American people,” Bove wrote.
The three threats, Bove said, were cartels and other transnational criminal organizations, crime by illegal immigrants, and…
